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Amazon vs. Hachette: I Stand with Amazon

Author
Paul Levinson
Published
Wed 22 Oct 2014
Episode Link
https://sites.libsyn.com/18679/amazon-vs-hachette-i-stand-with-amazon

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 92, in which I explain - as an author who is both traditionally and independently published - why I think Amazon has the right of it in its much-criticized dispute with Hachette.   I address some famous authors, such as Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman, and why I see their attacks on Amazon as not only wrong-headed, but serving as part of Hachette's classic appeal-to-authority propaganda.   In sum, Amazon has revolutionized the author's ability to reach potential readers, in as profound a way as the printing press before it.


Some of my novels, now independently published on Amazon:



 


See also -



  1. Nobel laureate Krugman cites Asimov's Foundation as Inspiration

  2. Marshall McLuhan and the Kindle (a podcast episode)

  3. recent interview with me (written) with more about this issue

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